Green Scenarios: Mining Industry Responses to Environmental Challenges of the Anthropocene Epoch

<p>This book aims to present an alternative based on natural processes and an environmental approach to post-excavation site management e.g. post-coal mining heaps. These sites are places where various mineral excavation by-products are collected. Nevertheless some post-mineral excavation sites are oligotrophic terrestrial wetland and water habitat islands providing unique biodiversity enrichment in the landscape. These oligotrophic mineral habitats are essential in over-fertilized eutrophic agricultural and urban-industry surroundings. Some post-mineral excavation sites are places where the wildlife can develop and support the functional processes of novel ecosystems. Implementing the newest biogeochemical and comprehensive knowledge into urban-industry landscape management will help to establish the ecosystem’s processes and environmental functioning.<br>There are several post-industrial sites in Europe where the wildlife areas developed due to natural processes are becoming wildlife hotspots in densely populated urban-industry areas. In this respect many of the oligotrophic mineral terrestrial wetland and water habitats of anthropogenic origin should not be categorized as environmentally dangerous and undergo economic utility-focused reclamation.<br>Facing the actual environmental constraints of the Anthropocene Epoch the book’s chapters presenting the natural basics and perquisites of the environmental ecosystem mosaics will be interesting for a broad range of environmentalists (scientists and students) miners economists and sociologists.</p>